| ANCHORET | Recluse, one who has withdrawn from the world (8) |
| ANCHORITE | A person who has withdrawn from the world, especially for religious reasons (9) |
| TRACE | Find he has withdrawn from the event (5) |
| LONER | Recluse, one splitting opposite sides (5) |
| RECLUSES | They are withdrawn from the world |
| DROPOUT | One who has withdrawn from society like a parachuter might do? (4-3) |
| RETIRES | What do we call one who has withdrawn from business, or active life (7) |
| HERMIT | Person who has withdrawn from society (6) |
| RECLUSE | Person who has withdrawn from society (7) |
| SUPERNAL | From the world of the divine |
| SMALLPOX | Infectious disease that was officially declared eradicated from the world in 1980 (8) |
| CLOISTER | Shut away from the world, seclude (8) |
| CANADIAN | From the world's second largest country (8) |
| RETIREE | Pensioner perhaps, one who has withdrawn (7) |
| HERMETIC | Opponent of Orthodox Church receives Mass, shut off from the world |
| IVORYTOWER | Possibly first coined to describe Alfred de Vigny's poetical attitude, what could either refer to a place withdrawn from the world or certain academic institutions? (5,5) |
| CHARON | His duty was to ferry the souls of the newly deceased across the river Styx, which divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. |
| IRAN | Hardliner Rafsanjani has withdrawn from its parliament |
| NAMIBIA | The home of the Skeleton Coast, country with the capital Windhoek that takes its name from the world's oldest desert (7) |
| PULPIT | Volatile populist has withdrawn so they can have the rostrum |
